UofMN Sailors Teach @ Local Youth Programs

Summer is here and sailing is in session! Check out the UofMN sailors teaching and promoting youth sailing in the area. Links are posted below for more information!

Wayzata Community Sailing Center (WCSC)
Allison Prange
Matt Thompson
Kirstin Wilson and Natalie Sinn













Saint Croix Sailing School
Kate Hockins

Calhoun Sailing School
Eric Tobias

Alumni Tim Krech takes 2nd @ C Nationals in New York

Congratulations Minnesota alumni Tim Krech, Anne Scheuerman, and Wiscos Bre Schmidt Krech on their 2nd place finish at Chautauqua Lake!

The team made the 15 hour trek to Chautauqua, New York where they encountered shifty winds and a decorated fleet. Competitors included Inland Champions Andy Burdick, Paul Reilly, and top MYC sparring partners Jason Ostbye and Hans Dickel. 6 races were sailed over the course of Friday and Saturday; one throwout was awarded. The team finished the event with an impressive 15 points, just 4 points shy of the leader.

Check out their race win coverage on Sail Groove
http://www.sailgroove.org/videos/coverage/view_video/237201-2010-c-scow-national-championship-regatta/341806-race-1-winners-tim-and-brie-krech

Results can be found below
http://www.ilyamedia.org/blog/post/show/id/1-C-Scow-Nationals-Final-Results

Team Racing at Lake Calhoun

Monday night team racing is back for another summer! Plan on being at Calhoun Sailing Center at 5:30 every Monday rain or shine. A donation of $15 is asked to help pay for equipment upkeep. Happy sailing!

Questions?? Contact Hugh Harris
hugh.harris09@gmail.com

Womens Nationals - Madison May25-28th

Gopher women; Allison, Amberose, Emma, Kate, Natalie, KK along with coach Dave traveled to Wisconsin, Madison last week to compete in Women's ICSA Nationals. As many may have already heard, there was not enough wind to get races off neither Tuesday nor Wednesday.

Vice Commodore, Allison Prange describes the event. "Tuesday and Wednesday were just a series of waiting games. A's were sent out and brought back in about 5 times on Tuesday, only starting one race which was later called off once the wind died (though we were beating Wisco at the time... so I think we would have beat them overall... haha). Sitting in the sun from 8:30-7 took its toll on us all. We came home and passed out early hoping to get some sailing in on Wednesday.
A's went out early on Wednesday morning, with enough wind to get to the line only for it to completely die again. We sat for 30 minutes on the water and were sent back in. They held us on shore until about 6pm when a storm started to come through and it was determined that there was not enough time to complete a full regatta so Semi's was called off."

The final 18 teams for Womens was than determined by the old formula placing MN one spot out of qualifying from their district (MCSA). While the two days of no sailing and loosing a chance at Nationals were disappointing for the ladies, they certainly were able to make the best of it. The team was given the opportunity to participate in a clinic the following two days held by female olympic gold medalist Anna Tunnicliffe. Coming off the water they all agreed that Anna was a, "fantastic teacher and that it was one of the most beneficial experiences of our college sailing careers".

Congratulations Gophers on a successful season! Happy sailing this summer! Farewell to Seniors Amberose Kramer, Kate Hockins, and Nick Hovland

Cappy Capper US Sailor of the week

Cappy is recognized as this weeks US Sailing Sailor of the Week. Check it out!

http://media.ussailing.org/US_SAILING_Media_Home/Sailor_of_the_Week.htm

Gopher Invite Success

Congratulations Gophers for putting on a great event this past weekend at WCSC! Here is the updated report and final scores from Vice Commodore Allison Prange.

We were pleased to see a lot of sun and warm weather for the weekend, though these great conditions brought little wind. Saturday started with glassy water so sailors were postponed on shore until the race committee saw a steady breeze of 3.5 knots or higher. A division eventually got in a total of 3 races with B's getting two in on Saturday. Sunday began with promising breeze which eventually began throwing 45 degree shifts for the race committee to compensate for. Despite the difficult wind conditions, each division completed 6 races with a total of 12 races being sailed for the regatta.

We would like to thank all of our volunteers- Carl Locker, Robbie Virnil, Andrea Porter, Mark Dunsworth, Mike Schmidt, Mark Swift, Megan Zweber, Tricia Towey, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and all of the Gopher sailors.

Congratulations to Minnesota Gold, a team of Nick Hovland, Kate Hockin, Matt Thompson and Tom Cramer, for winning the event!

We are sad to see our seniors go!

Final RESULTS

1A 2A 1B 2B 3A 4A 3B 4B 5A 6A 5B 6B Total
Minnesota Gold 3 1 4 3 1 1 5 7 2 2 1 2 32
Minnesota Maroon 2 6 7 5 2 2 1 8 6 4 3 1 47
St. Thomas 5 4 2 1 3 4 3 10 1 1 7 11 52
Minnesota Women 1 3 8 7 5 8 2 6 3 5 2 3 53
Northwestern 7 2 1 2 7 3 6 1 9 9 6 5 58
Chicago 4 8 3 6 6 7 4 9 7 8 5 4 71
Northwestern 4 6 9 6 4 4 6 7 3 5 10 4 10 74
Marquette 9 7 10 10 9 11 9 4 4 7 8 7 95
Northwestern 2 10 5 5 9 8 9 12 11 11 3 10 6 99
Northwestern 3 11 11 9 12 10 5 10 12 8 6 11 9 114
Indiana 12 12 11 8 12 12 8 2 12 12 9 8 118
Carleton 8 10 12 11 11 10 11 5 10 11 12 12 123

Cappy Capper Winner of ICSA Graham Hall Award

Sailors,

I am very pleased to announce today that our coach Cappy Capper has been selected by the ICSA committee as the winner of the 2009-2010 ICSA Graham Hall Award for outstanding service as a sailing professional.

This award recognizes organizers, administrators, advisors or coaches who have served the best interests of college sailing at the club/team, conference or national level. Cappy will be added to the elite list of names found on the permanent ICSA Hall of Fame display located in the Robert Crown Sailing Center at the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis, Md.).

I would like to thank Cappy for all of his hard work and years of dedication supporting youth sailing. We are honored to have Cappy Capper as our director and coach at the University of Minnesota.

ICSA president Mitch Brindley said it best, “Your support and enthusiasm for college sailing at the Universities of Minnesota and St. Thomas, in the MCSA, and all of the ICSA has truly been outstanding. I thank you for your tireless efforts for the sport of
college sailing of the past, present, and future.”

Cappy will be recognized and inducted into the ICSA Hall of Fame at the ICSA Awards Banquet on June 3, 2010 at in Madison, WI.


Jess Haverstock
jhaverstock@gmail.com
P:612.817.4837

Team Race Qualifiers @ Wisco

This weekend 7 of us headed to UW Madison to compete at Team Race Qualifiers. Saturday was a windy day, with an average of about 20-25 mph wind. The weather went from sunny to hailing more times than once and the temperatures were crazy cold. Despite all these factors the race committee got two full rotations in. The team performed very well (but definitely could have benefitted from some more alternates to save energy). Considering Brady, Matt and I have never practiced team racing together we were able to pull very strong moves and hold our own. Our shining moment was our unexpected win over Wisconsin in the first set- it was looking pretty rough at the first mark as we were holding a 2-3-6. KK and I were in the back getting battled by Wisco's two trailing boats, and despite our turtle from a squall and a quick team racing move, the boys were able to pull a 1-2, so all we had to do was right our boat and finish. With some effort and a lot of cheering we got the boat up and beat Wisconsin!

That little highlight was just one of the MANY awesome things that the team was able to put together this weekend. At the end of the first day we were tied with Northwestern for 2nd (the final qualifying spot for Nationals). Unfortunately, there was no wind on Sunday- virtually opposite conditions from Saturday- not allowing a sail off between the two of us moving to the next tie breaker (whichever team beat the other more times) which went to Northwestern.

Though we didn't qualify, we were very proud of our performance and look forward to improving for next year! Job well done to Matt, Braden, Allison, Natalie, Kate, KK and Emma- may your muscles recover quickly.

Happy Sailing

Allison Prange
Vice Commodore
Midwest Collegiate Sailing Association
E: pran0024@umn.edu
P: 262.323.1718

More coverage can be found on Sailgroove!
http://www.sailgroove.org/videos/coverage/view/237054-msca-team-race-qualifiers

Gopher Women Qualify!

(Ladies team: Amberose Kramer, Emma Gantzer, Allison Prange, Kirstin Wilson, Kate Hockins, Natalie Sinn)

I am very excited and proud to be posting today that the U of M ladies qualified for semi nationals this past weekend at the University of Illinois. They sailed 7 races in each division placing 3rd overall. It came down to the last leg of B division to determine who would go on to semis, Northwestern or Minnesota. Natalie Sinn managed to squeeze ahead of NW (having to move from 5th to 3rd) and finished a boat ahead to tie Northwestern and win the tiebreaker. Congratulations to our womens team! Good luck and sail fast at Wisco!!

Not to mention the boys also swept Wisconsin 3 Way this weekend! Not too shabby Gophers...not too shabby =) Results to follow.

Gophers and Tommies Qualify!

The Golden Gophers took 2nd place this past weekend in Notre Dame to give them a top spot in qualifying for Semis in Seattle. Highlights also included St. Thomas Tommies making up 30pts on day 2 to finish 4th and join their friends! Congratulations MN, St. Thomas, and the coaching staff at WCSC.

Good luck in Seattle. Represent MCSA!
http://collegesailing.org/nwicsa/semis/

Scores in Divisions

Team A B TOT

1 Wisconsin Badgers 27 18 45
2 Minnesota Gophers 42 39 81
3 Northwestern Wildcat 46 67 113
4 Saint Thomas Tommie 53 85 138
5 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 63 76 139
6 Michigan Wolverines 80 62 142
7 Western Michigan Western Michigan 93 85 178
8 Ohio State Ohio State 104 75 179
9 UW Milwaukee UW Milwaukee 86 116 202
10 Illinois Illini 97 106 203
11 Chicago Chicago 125 80 205
12 Marquette Marquette 127 127 254
13 Denison Denison 151 147 298